Donald B. Kuspit, Author, Jay Parini, Author, Tom Roberts, Author W. W. Norton & Company $75 (227p) ISBN 978-0-393-06008-9 As a successful actor, Anthony Quinn could easily have lived a life of ...

Gore Vidal (left) and Jay Parini Credit: Courtesy of Oliver Parini Middlebury College professor and writer Jay Parini knew Gore Vidal well, and he agrees that the word “irascible” described the late ...

The words of Jay Parini have transported readers to Tolstoy-era Russia, the mind of literary critic Walter Benjamin, and in November, when his new novel “The Passages of H.M.” is published, into a ...

A prolific poet, novelist, biographer and critic, Parini (One Matchless Time: A Biography of William Faulkner) has also taught throughout his career. He offers fresh musings about teaching's demands ...

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, Doubleday Books, 480 pages. $35. A chance meeting in Italy in the mid-1980s soon blossomed into a friendship that survived despite Vidal’s notorious prickliness ...

The best parts of “Empire of Self” are the brief interludes between chapters, when we are in the moment with Gore Vidal and his friend Jay Parini. There we can see, by turns, the imperious Gore and ...

World-renowned Robert Frost biographer, executive movie producer, Middlebury College professor and longtime Vermont resident, Jay Parini, is the host of a new, free online course filmed on the grounds ...

“The time for me hasn’t come yet: Some men are born posthumously,” Nietzsche wrote in “Ecce Homo.” It’s a statement that might have provided comfort to Herman Melville, whose books — including ...

After a rebrand earlier this year, the Old Worthington Partnership has taken another step toward a new look, naming Annina Parini the organization's first full-time executive director. Parini joins ...